The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-26
Our Best Every Day.

Our best every day. Is this, asks the Chris:
tian at Work, too much to demand Of our
selves? Do we feel that it is too much of
strain to be always at concert pitch; that
while we are willing now and then to do
something tremendous, to put forth squirt
and make spring forward, yet such an Inn
pulse cannot be expected of us every day?
Well, yes, perhaps that is just what we do
think in our inmoSt hearts We know that
we are careless about details, that we do not
put on our Sunday gowns on Saturday, nor
wear our best go-to-meeting bonnets when
we run into neighbor's for a half-hour's
chat in the twilight We confess that we
give way to transient fits Of irritability, and
succumb to the blues, when nobody Is at
boay exss csn bs % sr fy bT old Gur eE a tend
and tempests except Susy and the chill
dren. Why, we wouldn't think of speak
ing to our partners in business, nor to the
man next door, rs we speak to our own
wives and husbands at our own breakfast
tables, going off respectively to our home
occupations or the cares Of the office with e
little IRE spot in the heart which aches all
day, or frets like hair shirt, all because
sef-t ontrol was not worth while, in our
view, for just our own people.
The person who succeeds in life Is the per-
son who does not take that course. The truly
lovable man or woman takes such pains to
be always lovable that habit has become
second nature. The home manner Is sweeter
than the society manner. The gracious air
is worn for the family circle as certainly and
as easily as for the roomful of indifferent
acquaintances The company gown may be
costlier than the home costume. but it shall
not be neater, prettier or more becoming,
The true wisdom is to be at ones best every
day.
In very suggestive little essay bearing
the significant title, blessed be Drudgery,"
William C. Gannett says: "Drudgery," by
ones level best-pardon the slang-eyery
time, sis the gray angel Of success. Look at
the leaders in the professions, the solid men
in business, the master workmen who begin
as poor boys and end by building town to
house their factory hands, they are drudges
of the single ain-'One thing I do Mr..
Maydole, the hammer-maker Of Central New
made hammers Tor twenty-eight years.
We'll, then, you ought to be able to make
pretty good hammer by this time No,
sir was the answer, Il never made pretty
good hammer-I make the best hammer
made in the United States"
If we have anything to do, it is worth while
to do it in tho best way. The editor is always
on the qui vive that the number on which he
is now at work may surpass any number that
he ever sent out in his life. The minister for
gets the sermons of last week in his endeavor
to preach straight into the souls of his people
of to-day. The pedestrians anxiety is to beat
his past record. The housekeeper is not con-
tent with having cleaned house last year.
See is doing it over again now, and more
thoroughly than ever.
If we are serving the Mast:r, doing our
best for Him every day, He will not say to us,
sadly, ~ have somewhat against you-you
have left your first love" They do not leave
their first love who every day do their best
for Christ and humanity. Their words and
ways and actions tell. tell for eternity.